The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-10-29
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nuts fetch Is bushel.
A WEATHER bureau for the Northwest
has been established at st. Paul.
ARTIFICIAL ivory is made by injecting
whitewood with chloride of lime.
THE average price Of new corn through
out Kansas is forty cents per bushel.
In Audrhin County, Mo-, there is base
ball club composed of nine brothers.
A HINpoo might readily worship the
Western locomotives; it is so like Jugger-
naut.
The koyeo tree, from which the japan
sse paper is made, is rapidly becoming ex-
tinct.
A SOCIETY in Detroit Of men sworn not
10 swear numbers nearly 1000 persons, it
is said.
AN Atlantic County IN. J.) divine re-
Gently delivered sermon to an audience
of one.
AN Omaha bride, en- route to the altar,
split her satin corsage by an ill-timed
sneeze.
AN automatic pencil that writes blue,
red, violet and black at command is late
novelty.
EpisoN's talking machine, the phono-
graph, has been perfected and will be put
on the market.
THE bill in the Mexican Congress per-
mitting reelection to the Presidency has
been finally passed.
In this country $4,000 insane persons are
supported by public taxation, amounting
to SS,0O0,000 annually.
THERE are twenty-one bureaus of labor
in the United States. Four years ago
there were only seven.
pNipt Il, "a dam two milea
from Wallingford, N. Y, ice, it is said,
forms the year around.
THERE are only two public statues in San
Francisco-one of President Garfield, the
other of General Halleck.
THE wood-chopper's axe is said to be
rapidly stripping New Hampshire of some
OF its most beautiful scenery.
PHOEBE HICKS, of Petersburg, w. Va,
has married widower with thirty-one
children. She is his eighth wife.
THE school slate manufacturers have
formed a pool and will put up prices, thus
putting another tax on education.
A MOVEMENT for Government control
OF the telegraph is already taking shape
in the work of the Fiftleth Congress.
An uptown fancy store in New York
has on private exhibition one of the dia-
dems worn by the Empress Eugenie.
PROMINENT physician of Dubuque
thinks the turned-down kerosene lamp is
the prime and common cause of diphtheria.
A FEMALE member of the Coldwater
(Mich) Salvation Army has worked on
her jersey jacket the words, "No water in
hell"
The word "boodle" has gone into the U.
s. language. Eastern newspapers, even
those of Boston, use it without quotation
marks.
IT is asserted that ninety out of every
hundred male children born in Ireland at
present are named after Charles Stuart
Parnell.
SEVEN U. S. Senators spent the summer
In Europe. They were Palmer, Stock
bridge, Hale, Frye, Spooner, Aldrich and
Hawley.
HENRY A. ROBINSON, famous dealer in
sporting goods, says that Mexico buys
more pistols than all the United States put
together.
AN official list just published shows there
are thirty-five widows of revolutionary
soldiers still drawing pensions from the
Government.
One of the glaciers of the Kinchinjunga
in Indfa-a peak whose summit is 2S, 600
feet above sea level-has a vertical height
of 14,OOO feet.
Miss FRANCES E. WILLARD wants all tenn
perance women in the world to observe
November 12 as "a day OF special prayer
for the cause"
A MINNEAPOLIS woman was fined $40 for
breaking her umbrella over the head of a
street masher, but the public sent her over
500 to pay the fine with.
The danger to aeronauts in Russia is IN
creased by the fact that the peasants
shoot at them as they come down, suppos-
ing them to be evil spirits.
The Michigan maiden who chased rob-
ber with a pitchfork and made him drop
his booty, is said to be receiving an
average of fifteen offers of marriage per
week.
The Bankers Convention, recently held
in Pittsburgh, earnestly urged the extern
sion of the extradition treaty with Great
Britain so as to cover emblezzlers and de-
faulters.
The name of new explosive which the
Russians claim to have discovered is "lec-
tower" Its popularity is that its force
does not strike upward or downward, but
forward.
FRosTs all around and snow in New Eng
land the other night warn the country to
get their heavy clothing and fuel in readi-
ness for the time when the billiards. begin
business.
JUDGE PAREoN, of the supreme court of
Pennsylvania, SAID, in late decision, that
man who can not or does not read the
newspapers is not properly qualified to
serve as juror.
Mrs. LOUISA TURNBuRKE, OF Washington,
claims that her father was a brother Of
William O'Brien, the late California bo.
uanza king. OF his estate $20OO,O 900 is in
doubt and she will lay claim to it.
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM II. ScHUErzE's re-
port of his mission to the Lena Delta, re-
cords $3.50 degrees below zero, the temper
ature he experienced at Verchoyansk.
Northern Siberia, Us the lowest ever OBJ.
served.
The Indian Prince Waharjah Sir Waghie
ordered $25O,OO0 worth OF goods in New
York recently. He made his purchases in
this country instead of his natural mar.
ket, England, because he thinks the goods
OF this country superior to those of Eng.
hnd.
AN extra edition of the Omaha World.
printed ON white satin, was presented
to Mrs Cleveland on her visit to that
city This "extra" was largely devoted
to "a description Of Mrs. Folsom's proper.
ty in Omaha, In which her daughter, Mrs.
Cleveland, Is interested" illustrated by
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